Medicine: Career Woman

When Dr. Florence Rena Sabin went back to Colorado in 1938, she thought
she had earned the right to retire and take life easy in her native
state. Dr. Sabin, then 67, had been away a long time, gathering high
honors in two careers: 1) as a researcher and professor at Johns
Hopkins (1902-25), prying into the secrets of the blood stream and the
lymphatic glands, and 2) from 1925 on, as the first woman member of the
Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (Director Simon Flexner
called her "the most eminent of living women...